Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or ascending, few-clustered, unbranched or branched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline (basal not present at anthesis);

stipules 4–13 mm;

petiole 2.5–6 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades broadly oblanceolate, 20–40(–50) × 4–11 mm, abaxial surface appressed-hairy, adaxial surface glabrate.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–15 cm;

flowers spirally arranged or ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–4 mm.

5–8 mm.

8–13 mm;

calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm;

corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

(10–)12–14 mm;

calyx lobes entire, 6 mm;

corolla pale lavender to reddish purple, banner spot yellow or white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel distally ciliolate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

4 × 2 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–6.